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15. To one, who was excessively cheerefull, for being recovered of a Fever, wherewith he had beene for a time extreame sorely shaken.
That to your health you are restored, youMay in some sort be joyfull: and yet pleased
To know your dying day is nearer now,
Then when you were most heavily diseased;
For to its Journeyes end your life still goes,
Which cannot stay, nor slow it's pace: nor hath
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Sicknesse, and health being alike steps to death:
Let this thought then your gladnesse mortifie,
That once againe you must fall sicke, and dye.
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